Chill guys. I still just about remember being a newbie, and I didn't find Potlatch crap.
Not knowing what the + button did was crap. The endless & contradictory wiki is crap. It's a bit too easy to do something too dramatic in Potlatch by inadvertantly using the wrong keyboard shortcut (merging ways, in particular), and relations are painful. But most of that is invisible to the newbie; it's something you find out later. It's easy enough to create nodes and new ways. I think the biggest reason newbies don't contribute is that when they look where they live, most of them find either a blank canvas or something that looks pretty good enough already, and don't hang around long enough to think "I could add x" or "y is wrong; I'll fix it". Whereas, looking at Google Maps overlaid on aerial photos, I keep finding labelling errors - but I can't fix them. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
